Blue Spruce Park
Orienteering Meet
18 August 2019



It was an extremely hot day for orienteering, temperature and humidity both about 90.  The heat may have reduced our attendance somewhat; however, Blue Spruce events normally have relatively low turnout.  We had 24 starts from 42 participants.  Some of them returned clearly wilted from the heat.

Sherry Shank designed the day's courses.  The combination of climb, lack of mowing on some paths and fields and the heat made for some fairly long finishing times and for several DNFs.  However, these factors were generally outside of Sherry's control.  Aside from the heat effects, everyone seemed to have a good time, although a few would have like to finish their courses.

Thanks to Barbara Johnstone, Eric Steinbring, Ryan Knecht and Laurie Opila for handling registration.  Thanks to Naomi Jarvis and Ryan Knecht for helping with start/finish.  Thanks to Sherry Shank and Joe Logan for offering instruction.  And a big thanks to Yaki Barak, Sherry Shank, Alexis Rzewski, and Ryan Knecht for doing control pickup, a couple of them after running a course.

To see the splits, go to splits

The next WPOC event will be at Keystone State Park on September 8; it will feature five cross-country courses.


190818 Blue Spruce
results created by Ór


Beginner Novice Intermediate Adv Short Adv Long
Beginner     2.3k         50m
NameNotesClubTime
1Jen York (2) 53:55
2Emma York (4) 60:56
3Braden Dibello (3) 68:37
4Ian Bartolomeo (2) 71:45
5Saul and Gavin Phillips 92:21



Novice     3.2k           110m
NameNotesClubTime
1Eric SteinbringM40WPOC76:03
2Tom and Linda Gray WPOC84:15
3Giuseppina Mecchia WPOC90:00
4Camilla Hendrych (4) 110:09
5Mary and Paul Sleppy WPOC122:09
Rachel Stunder (3) Missed last control; finished at 95:38 DNF
Barbara Johnstone Found 7 controls; finish at 71:44WPOCDNF


Intermediate     4.1k       160m
NameNotesClubTime
1Julian Yerger WPOC76:10
2Ellen Yerger (2) WPOC155:31
Naomi Jarvis Found 6 controls; finished at 90:53WPOCDNF


Adv Short     3.8k         150m
NameNotesClubTime
1Alexis Shank WPOC67:29
2Joe LoganM55WPOC86:54
3Ryan and Ramey Roppel 163:42
Mark Puda Found 2 controls; finished at 169:21WPOCDNF
Loretta OpilaFound 0 controls; finished at 74:43WPOCDNF


Adv Long     6.2k       230m
NameNotesClubTime
1Alexis Rzewski WPOC116:40
Sara Halo (2) Found 10 controls; finished at 194:25WPOCDNF
Ruth Cunningham Found 6 controls; finished at 207:45 DNF
Yaki BarakFound 13 controls; finished at 148:53WPOCDNF